Philosophy of artificial intelligence

The common questions asked in this branch of philosophy they common questions asked are and my personal answers are: How is anything known? Everything is known by knowledge. It is either taught to us from prior knowledge of our elders and peers or learned by us from experience. What is the basis for…

It is amazing to see one of the most ancient disciplines is now sought after by cutting-edge technology companies. Philosophy has been, is, and always will be at the core of human progress, which is why I am enthused to pursue a degree in Philosophy. I enjoy considering alternative answers to common questions that I am asked. To understand more about Philosophy, I read ‘Philosophy: The Basics’ by Nigel Warburton. The book sparked my interest with absorbing questions, such as ‘does God exist?’…

Does Descartes, working from the inside out, “escape subjectivism”? Very simply, he does not. Consciousness is known as “the hard problem” of philosophy—neurology might tell us something of the mechanics of how we experience qualia, how we process phenomena, but it says very little of why. For example, it’s really quite simple to answer how we know a sour taste from a sweet taste—the physical reaction to sour foods, like lemons or spoiled milk, has much to do with an early genetic mutation that…

learned even a satisfactory answer is never enough. At a high school football game this year, I talked about philosophy to my former high school principal. I told him how I disliked philosophy because I like concrete answers. For example, many mathematical equations or formulas can be proved…

of SpaceX, and more. In recent years, the simulation-argument has gained serious traction as we further advance technologically, and intellectually. However, not everyone is on board with the “simulation argument”—a term coined by Nick Bostrom (Philosophy Professor at Oxford University) when he published a journal stating: [A]t least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is…

Reading/Discussion Questions Assignment 1 1. Students improve in the way they think. They would be a better person, be happy, and find the correct truth about what happen in life. That is what Philosophy do to us, it guides you to develop your brain better. Also the word Philosophy is more often recognized as “the love of wisdom.” 2. The Socratic Method of teaching is one of the oldest and powerful methods. This method is very useful because it develops critical thinking and involves giving…

Aberrant Data Allow it to be said, as a point of peremptory optimism, that the author of this essay invests every confidence in the strength of the human intelligence. Men fail, as surely and naturally as any carbonic life, but one mind always survives another. And the mind endures, ungovernable, difficulty notwithstanding. The question of utopia is not so easily answered as “perfection” or dystopia as “imperfection”. “Perfect” is not a reasonable or corporate state ; it is an apparition,…

Modern science-fiction films vividly illustrate modern social issues and current attitudes toward the future. Based on the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long,” “Artificial Intelligence” takes place in the end of the 21st century at the United States of America. Spielberg 's film raises many questions: foremost among them, what does it mean to be a person? Degree of personhood is the status of how much a thing is a person depending on certain qualities. This theory concerns with…

To answer this question I will fist give an explanation of what functionalism is and its relation to dualism, materialism and mind-brain identity theory. From here I will outline the two key objections it faces namely the extra-cranial objection or china brain thought experiment and the qualia objection. I will state and explain why the qualia objection is the most serious of the two and why functionalism at present can not fully overcome it but in doing so I will address the replies…

Abstract In this essay I will be arguing about the patient not having any mental states. This starts off by summarizing and going into explanatory detail the argument of Type-Identity Theory held by doctor number one, and an artificial intelligence held by doctor number two, and why they do not make sense. This therefor leads the conclusion of rejecting the patient’s efficiency of mental states, in the view of acknowledgement of a type of functionalism more suitable than the perspectives spoke…